1. The voice of Dublin James Joyce

2. Biographical Sketch He was born at Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, on Feb. 2, 1882. He was educated in a Jesuit school and later entered University College, Dublin where he graduated in 1902. In 1904 Joyce departed for the Continent, a second time, this time taking with him a girl called Nora Barnacle, whom he married in 1931. Their home from 1905 to 1915 was Trieste, where Joyce taught English at the Berlitz school In 1909 and 1912 he made his final trips to Ireland, attempting to arrange the publication of his first book Dubliners, which finally appeared in England in 1914. About this time he starts a life of self-imposed exile, living in several places in Europe. He dedicated all his life to his literary works. He died in Zurich on Jan 13, 1941

3. Work Joyce was a writer of such talent and of such dedication, that the majority of his literary output is today considered as masterful. Without a doubt, his most famous narrative works can all be appreciated under that light: Dubliners A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses Finnegan’s Wake Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue (usually through stream of consciousness). He used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. ( The Literature Network, Jalic LLC at http://www. online-literature.com) http://www. online-literature.com

4. Ulysses Published in 1922. The plot of the story is disarmingly simple: we follow 3 characters who have a series of encounters during one single day (Thursday, June 16, 1904) in Dublin. The 3 characters are: Leopold Bloom; a middle-aged publicist and non- practicing Jew; a writer, Stephen Dedalus; and Bloom’s wife Molly, a voluptuous singer who is planning an afternoon of adultery. The narrative is loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey, hence the title name.

5. Ulysses In Ulysses, Joyce builds a complex world, full of subtleties, where each character moves and interacts in different ways. Each of the 18 chapters of the novel can be loosely connected to a character in Homer’s Odyssey. Likewise, each of the chapters is told using a different literary technique, varying from dramatic dialogue (chapter 15) to hard-core stream of consciousness (chapter 18). In Ulysses, Joyce uses a host of references.While the Homeric parallels and literary techniques are the most important, each chapter is additionally organized around a different hour, colour, bodily organ, sense, symbol,art, and science.